Top 10 reasons to visit Austin, Texas
Written by Vacation Idea.com Travel Editors.
Austin, Texas, enjoys 300 days of sunshine annually and a 68.5 degrees F. average year-round temperature.
On any given night you can find a place that plays live music in the city, home to Grammy Award winning musicians The Dixie Chicks, Shawn Colvin, Willie Nelson, Asleep at the Wheel, Don Walser, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Visitors have a choice of 80 restaurants and nightclubs along Sixth Street and 30 restaurants and bars in the Warehouse District.
The city features Barton Springs, a spring-fed swimming hole open for year-round swimming in 68-degree waters.
Austin is the top location for moviemaking in Texas. Recent hits include The Alamo, Spy Kids 3D, Miss Congeniality, The Rookie and Second Hand Lions.
The city offers 220 parks, including the 360-acre Zilker Park, Lake Travis, Lake Austin and Town Lake. Activities range from scuba diving and sailing on Lake Travis to canoeing on Town Lake.
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin is open seven days a week (except major holidays) and offers free admission.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, the nation’s most-visited presidential library, houses volumes of presidential papers, a replica of the Oval Office and a presidential limousine.
Harry Ransom Center houses the world’s first photograph, original costumes from Gone With the Wind and a rare Gutenberg Bible.
Driskill Hotel, built in 1886, offers historic rooms and delicious food.
